STILL PHONING HOME
NASA successfully communicated earlier this month with Pioneer 10, now 7.4 billion mi. from Earth. The TRW-built spacecraft, launched in 1972, completed its science mission in 1997, but continues to be tracked by the agency's Deep Space Network as part of an advanced concept study of communications...
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